It's the second tour of the city school system for Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises, the former chief academic officer for city schools.

It means she already knows what to expect and how to go about making some critical changes on behalf of children.

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Santelesis said she plans to start the process of turning city schools around on day one.

"Because you have the title of CEO doesn't come with magic powers to just make things happen," Santelesis said.

Santelesis said she's striving toward success one student and one employee at a time.

"My job now is to give you what you need as the front line folk to get the job done on behalf of our young people," Santelises said.

Young people whose numbers are expected to be a little more than 80,000 by the time students return this fall.

"I think our work is really center on building the next generation of citizens for Baltimore and the world, and what that means, is we need to be equipping our young people with all of the knowledge and experiences that they need to maximize their purpose," Santelises said.

She's promising lots of checks and balances this from a leader who said she's not a fan of sitting behind a desk.

"We need to reconcile the policies we send down from on high up here, the general report and we need to be out in the field enough to know to what extent it's having impact," Santelises said.

School safety is one of her top priorities, which is why more than two dozen police officers are heading back to campus. While the officer will do so without the right to openly carry weapons on campus, but they will be better trained. The move comes after two officers were charged last school year with assaulting a student. And that goes along with her belief of putting children first.

"I think that every young person deserves to have adults who are correcting them and teaching them out of a space of believing that they have potential," Santelises said.

The mother of three said she's prepared to practice what she preaches.